{"id":2806,"date":"2020-05-12T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww3.ambientskies.com\/video-editing-mac-vs-pc\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:47:35","slug":"video-editing-mac-vs-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambientskies.com\/blog\/filmmaking\/video-editing-mac-vs-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Editing: Mac VS PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

here’s a silent war that’s been brewing in the tech world for over 4 decades now. Macintosh VS Microsoft — There’s other PC brands out there but let’s be real, they’d be nowhere without Bill Gates. The mastermind behind ‘PC’ computers. If you don’t know that, forget the rock — you seriously have been living in a subterranean layer 60 feet below the surface of the earth your entire life.<\/p>\n

The ‘other’ mastermind Steve Jobs (rest in peace) created another well-loved desktop computer company called Apple — you’ve probably heard of them. Apple in the eyes of consumers is seen as the Rolls Royce of computer tech. Their designs are more sleek than most of their competitors, their operating systems combat viruses better, and the interface is super user friendly. It’s for these reasons that they’re price tag hits a little higher than most Microsoft or ‘PC’ products.<\/p>\n

But how does that perception of dominance translate to the video editing world?<\/p>\n

Do editors prefer Mac too for the most part or is PC a better option due to it’s customizable nature?<\/p>\n

I’ve talked to quite a few editors about this and have come to realize a few things.<\/p>\n

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I’ve come to find that most editors currently have both! With the vast array of software available out there and some of them being proprietary to Mac or PC, you’re almost forced to acquire both to keep up. If you’re a video editor and you’re getting tons of work coming in from all sorts of workflows, you’re going to run into program files, updates, or hard drives that are Mac or PC only.<\/p>\n

Most brands have been designing their software to be compatible with both options. For years, I’ve had a drive with a windows operating system in my Mac Pro tower. Some editors definitely prefer one over the other and might only choose to beef out one computer system that is their ‘primary’ work station. But I’ve found that if an editor works primarily off of a PC, he’ll at least own a MacBook laptop or an iMac Pro and vice versa. <\/p>\n

So let’s say you’re an editor at a crossroads that’s looking to invest a large amount of money into one or the other. Which way should you go?<\/p>\n

That’s a valid question and one we hope to help answer.<\/p>\n

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Apple Macintosh <\/h2>\n

Personally, I roll with Mac<\/a>. I’ve owned several Mac Pro towers over the years as well as MacBooks and iMacs. The G5 was a game changer back in the day. It dominated the video editing scene from 2003 to 2006 and was claimed to be the world’s first 64-bit desktop computer utilizing the PowerPC 970 CPU. The other thing people loved about them was their slick anodized aluminum alloy enclosure that allowed it to be somewhat customizable which was a first for Mac. But then they transitioned to the Intel Processors and discontinued the G5.<\/p>\n

Mac then introduced their Mac Pro line with their Dual-core Xeon Woodcrest processors which was another game changer. Soon after it was replaced by the dual Quad-core Xeon Clovertown model in ’07 and in ’08 was replaced again by the dual Quad-core Xeon Harpertown model.<\/p>\n

Out of all of Mac’s design’s over the decades, the Mac Pro has lived the longest life. There have been two new generations since the Harpertown model.<\/p>\n

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The ‘Trash Can’ as everyone called it, dropped in 2013. It was a whole new direction with it’s 12-core Xeon E5 processor, dual AMD FirePro D series GPU and PCIe-based flash storage. Apple claimed that its performance was twice that of its predecessor. The updated wireless communication and the six Thunderbolt Display support was a plus, but many people were hating on the cylindrical design which might have taken up less room, but came with a disadvantage. You were unable to upgrade with more powerful hardware. You were basically stuck with stock. Hence the reason why it got it’s name — the Trash Can.<\/p>\n

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Finally prayers were answered with the 2019 release of the third-generation Mac Pro<\/a> which featured a 28-core Xeon-W processor! What!? Up to 8TB of storage!? That’s insane! Not only that, it comes equipped with PCIe slots, AMD Radeon Pro Vega GPUs, and the data ports are replaced with USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.<\/p>\n

And Apple Afterburner, are you kidding me? Now you can finally work natively with files without severe lagging or having to transcode or use proxies. It’s features like this that may have some editors thinking about jumping ship.<\/p>\n

On the outside, this model clearly resembles the original Mac Pro design with noticeably bigger holes for breathing. But on the inside, it comes with a genius design to keep it cool allowing it to run unconstrained. According to Apple, Heat pipes move the heat away from the chip, dispersing it along aluminum fin stacks. While three axial fans move air through the system. Rendering 3d animation files 6.8x faster, viewing native files at full quality, all possible now with this powerful machine. It’s definitely time to upgrade and pick up one of these puppies. <\/p>\n

Full customization of the new Mac Pro will run you somewhere close to the price of a new car. But you can still pick one up stock for about 7-8k after tax which was about what the 1st-gen went for.<\/p>\n

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